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Beta Run of my Shadowrun 4E team is now a player short, and we're looking for another runner to add to the team. We are playing the Shadowrun Mission "Back in Business." The campaign takes place in Seattle.

Our team consists of: Adam (Face), Kat (Illusionist Mage), and Rick (Unarmed Adept). We are looking for a gunner type or a hacker/rigger type to add to the team. Other submissions will be considered, but gunners & hackers have priority.

We'll use standard 400 BP for character building, Core Rulebook metatypes only (e.g., no Infected, free spirits, or AIs), but you can choose qualities/gear/spells from other books. I don't have the Anniversary edition but generally will defer to it if there is a rules change, just let me know. (I do have the errata/changes summary).

• Core Rulebook
  
• Runner's Companion
  
• Street Magic
  
• Arsenal
  
• Augmentation

If you use something from another book, please spoiler the full, relevant text on your "character sheet."

We also are using the houserule in which you gain double your Charisma in free BP to buy contacts with. Additional BP to improve or add to these contacts may be allocated from your starting pool as usual, of course.

Once I gauge the level of interest of potential players, I will set a date to submit characters by.

Happy running, and good luck!
-Cloaked

It's an ordinary, rainy day in the metroplex known as Seattle. You are all going about your daily routines when at about noon you receive a chirp on your commlinks. The Matrix icon that appears is of the traditional smiley face, colored red with jagged lines (what you can only assume are orc tusks) running up from the mouth.

Upon answering the call, the icon is replaced by a grinning ork face. His hair and beard are sprinkled with grey and a pair of golden datajacks line his left temple. Strangest of all are the wire-rimmed glasses on his face: not tinted mirrorshades to make you look badass, or AR goggles, but real, honest-to-goodness reading glasses, the kind long made rare by ubiquitous laser surgery or cybereyes.

Hoi, chummers! he says, still grinning. I hear tell you might be interested in a bit of biz. If you're interested, head on over to Underworld 39 tonight at 7. There's a small concert going on. Let the doorman know you're there to meet MacCallister, and he'll get you good seats. After the show's over, we'll have a chat and I'll tell you a bit more. Interested?

It's an ordinary, rainy Wednesday in the metroplex known as Seattle. You are all going about your daily routines when at about noon you receive a chirp on your commlinks. The Matrix icon that appears is of the traditional smiley face, colored red with jagged lines (what you can only assume are orc tusks) running up from the mouth.

Upon answering the call, the icon is replaced by a grinning ork face. His hair and beard are sprinkled with grey and a pair of golden datajacks line his left temple. Strangest of all are the wire-rimmed glasses on his face: not tinted mirrorshades to make you look badass, or AR goggles, but real, honest-to-goodness reading glasses, the kind long made rare by ubiquitous laser surgery or cybereyes.

Hoi, chummers! he says, still grinning. I hear tell you might be interested in a bit of biz. If you're interested, head on over to Underworld 39 tonight at 7. There's a small concert going on. Let the doorman know you're there to meet MacCallister, and he'll get you good seats. After the show's over, we'll have a chat and I'll tell you a bit more. Interested?

Alright, Alpha Runners, welcome to the team!

Your first assignment is to become a team. Discuss (in or out of character) how you all met and became a running team. The campaign starts in Seattle, and most of your backstories revolve around Seattle, but don't feel limited by that. If you all want to meet and start your running in Antarctica, as long as you all end up in Seattle at the same time, I don't care :)

Alright, Beta Runners, welcome to the team!

Your first assignment is to become a team. Discuss (in or out of character) how you all met and became a running team. The campaign starts in Seattle, and most of your backstories revolve around Seattle, but don't feel limited by that. If you all want to meet and start your running in Antarctica, as long as you all end up in Seattle at the same time, I don't care :)

So here are the rules for character creation for this campaign.

Build Point Limitations (per the core rulebook)

• 400 BP Total for Character Creation:
  
• 200 or fewer BP can be used on Physical or Mental Attributes (i.e., Magic/Resonance and Edge don't count toward this limit)
  
• 35 or fewer BP spent on Positive Qualities
  
• 35 or fewer BP earned by Negative Qualities
  
• 1 Active Skill maxed out and the rest no higher than Rating 4
  OR 2 at Rating 5 and the rest no higher than Rating 4
  
• Free Knowledge Skill BP equal to your (Intuition+Logic) x 3
  
• Language Skills count as Knowledge Skills. And you get 1 language at Native for free :)
  
• (Houserule) Free BP to buy Contacts equal to your Charisma x 2. Your contacts with free BP are subject to approval though. If you want a 6/6 super-contact, you have to spend your own BP to do it.

  Starting Gear Rules (per the core rulebook)
  

• 50 BP or fewer spent on gear (1 BP = 5,000¥).
  
• Cannot buy anything at character creation with an Availability higher than 12.
  
• Cyber/bioware is only available at standard or alphaware levels at creation.
  
• Unused BP nuyen don't roll over, but for each 100¥ left, you can add +1 (up to +3x the number of dice rolled) to your starting money dice roll result

  My Requirements
  

• Only base metatypes allowed (human, dwarf, elf, ork, or troll)
  
• At least a paragraph of Backstory about your character, and a paragraph of physical description. Also include at least a sentence or two on your relationship with each of your contacts, especially those with Loyalty 4 or higher.
  
• Please commit to (at least) 1 post per day, except on weekends.

A friend gave me some Shadowrun 4E rulebooks and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in playing in a campaign. I'd prefer to play (having never played Shadowrun before) but would be willing to GM if everyone else was fine with a noob GMing. (I have GMed some real life Pathfinder campaigns, though).

For the uninitiated, Shadowrun is a cyberpunk/fantasy hybrid RPG, taking place about 60 years from now from in an alternate history. (Confusing, I know, but it starts an alternate history in 1999 and then extrapolates it out to 2070). In this setting, megacorporations run the world, the internet has evolved into the Matrix (an omnipresent wireless network with alternate reality as well as virtual reality), magic has returned the world, bringing with it the mutation of a percentage of the population into elves, dwarves, orks, and trolls, and America has been torn beyond recognition: Canada and the US merged, the Southern states seceded, and the Western states are now run by Native Americans and in one case elves. (California remained its own state).

Unfortunately none of it is covered by the OGL so you'll have to get ahold of the books yourselves.